Defined term
Parallel Monitoring
Parallel Monitoring: Testing a number of randomly selected voting stations under conditions that simulate actual Election Day usage as closely as possible,…
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Definition
Testing a number of randomly selected voting stations under conditions that simulate actual Election Day usage as closely as possible, except that the actual ballots seen by ‘test voters’ and the voting behavior of the ‘test voters’ are known to the testers and can be compared to the results that these voting stations tabulate and report.
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Parallel Testing
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Glossary of Election Terms, U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
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EAC Glossary of Terms
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EAC Glossary of Election Terms
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Electronic Voting Glossary
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